Duct Tape
Today I was called out as my team's duct tape. Intended as a compliment, it's anything but. Culturally, duct tape is vernacular for a fix-anything solution, which is completely justified.…
Random Learnings #42
In an article on The Guardian, a women describes her mother's abusive boyfriend and the impact on her and her mother's life. Ultimately, her mother dies - it's unclear whether…
Six Degrees of Separation II
A followup to my previous post My Six Degrees of Separation. Martin Luther King, Jr. AFP via Getty Images George Raveling was the University of Iowa's men's basketball coach during…
Random Learnings #41
From Leyhah Fernandez' Wiki page: She us studying at Indiana University East, which has a partnership with the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Tennis Benefits Association that enables players…
Random Learnings #40
The Carnegie Museum of Art is currently exhibiting the works of the German artist Beate Kuhn. I initially read a contemporary biography in German: despite my sehr schlecht school-boy Germany,…
Random Learnings #39
Karl Marx popularized - but did not create - the slogan From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs that is most often associated with communism.…
Camping In Sin
My grandson and his girlfriend have been together for over two years, and their relationship has reached the point where you view them as a single unit: rarely do you…
Random Learnings #38
My sister-in-law graduated from Western Dubuque High School oh-so-many years ago, and for no good reason I decided to deep-dive and learn more about it. Boy, it was definitely a…
World War I Era Maps
My interest in maps - especially older maps - has grown over the past few years, and on a Monday in late February I spent a few hours in the…
Weighted Goal Average
Most football (a.k.a soccer) leagues award the player who scored the most goals during a season the Golden Boot award: Erling Haarland in England's Premier League, Harry Kane in Germany's…